Rotating applets

[jeremy at scitools.com]

On Monday 16 June 2008 07:56:50 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > currently, because of proxy widgets and int-precision, rotating widgets
> > often leads to bad glitches. Moreover, I don't think it's an useful
> > feature for most of the applets...
>
> i think we can leave it up to the user to decide to use the feature or not.
>

Yep, I agree, some people like to do stuff like this, why not let them? :)

> > Therefore I'd like to propose to make the rotation optional, with the
> > last word given by the plasmoid author (let's make it a flag, like with
> > the background),
>
> rotation isn't exactly useful on a per-applet; e.g. it isn't particularly
> more useful for one than another (or equally unuseful)
>
> > and off by default.
>
> guaranteeing it'd never get used at all =)

That would be bad imho.